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    How to display old tiles without damaging them.

    Hi, I am really hoping for some help. I love old tiles and collect them. I really want to use them in my bathroom but am afraid of damaging them. Is there anyway of using/displaying tiles without any risk of breakage. Fingers crossed this is possible.
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    how to replace water damaged chipboard under tiles?

    What is the best way to remove and also replace the water damaged chipboard and cellotex under ceramic tiled kitchen flloor. Also what do you do about the kitchen cupboards resting on the floor, do these need to come out too?? the chipboard looked like weetabix under the tiles and cellotex is...
  3. S

    Help.How to clean frosted glass tiles

    Hi, Please for help with cleaning frosted glass tiles.Anyone have an idea how to clean this type of tiles?? Thanks for Help
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    How to tile an angled window?

    Hi, I have an angled window in the bathroom which I want to keep angled and would like some advice on how best to tile it. I've uploaded some pictures with two options and would like to know what's best to do. Option 1 - is keeping the edge of the angled window in line with the grout line...
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    How To Remove Paint From Walls Prior To Priming & Tiling?

    I'm about to start a bathroom job which has half the walls made from Plasterboard and half from Blockwork. All the walls are painted other than the one's around the existing shower which are tiled. I will rip out the existing plasterboard (with tiles attached) around the shower and replace...
  6. Andy Allen

    how to repair a tile

    just got na call from a t.v company , one of there fitters have just drilled a hole through a wall and through a tile in the bathroom (dont laugh), tiles are discontiued and theres no spares, is there any product you can use to patch a small hole, im thinking along the lines of something you...
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    How to replace tiles in a quarry tiled path?

    Hello, I arrived at this forum while looking for some advice on refurbishing a Victorian quarry tiled path. I'm hoping someone can help! I have around 14 tiles cracked or missing from a short path fronting the house I've just bought. With everything else that needs doing I just can't run to...
  8. aflemi

    Ideal Home Show- How To Tile a Bathroom..............

    Went to this yesterday, one of the demos on the main stage was this chap promoting some tiling products The Tile Tracker... Level Tracking in Level Time - Home. Actually a couple of them looked quite good and I'll start another thread on Tiling Tools section asking if anyone uses them. Anyway...
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    How to avoid slithers at each end of the wall!! Advice wanted please

    Hi I am about to start tiling a bathroom. Walls are plain without any windows, just one recess that has been built into the studwork false back wall which is a feature and shelf. This wall faces you as you enter the room and it is where the wet area is situated. I have marked out my tiles from...
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    How to grind/polish slate

    Hi All. Firstly, my apologies for long absense (been having a bit of mare running to Devon and back and trying to finish a job that keeps getting changed). Just finished laying ufh and 20sqm of slate. Was giving it clean and seal today and customer has taken exception to a "feature" on one of...
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    How to Tile (Trim) around splashback on a window??

    Hi All, After a bit of help, I'm trying to work out the best way to lay the tile trim around the splash back I'm doing on a window. I'm using this trim . I'm tiling up to the bottom of the wall cabinets (one is flush to the window) so I've layed the tile trim down the side of the window/the...
  12. Andy Allen

    how to negotiate with the dentist

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nafz1QJe-Cg&feature=player_detailpage
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    Video: How to drill a hole into curved ceramic sink, loo, urinal, shower tray, bath

    Sometimes if you have bought white goods for the bathroom project the holes may not be in the right place to match the plumbing layout of the room. But rather than abandon that trendy granite sink or that sleek white toilet it is possible for less the £40 to place the correct holes into your...
  14. kilty55

    how to clean a danish oiled worktop

    hello all,i went to see a job today where the lady has had a travertine splashback done 2 weeks ago,she wasnt happy with it and to be honest itsd a pretty poor job ,any way on top of that she has a wooden worktop stained with danish oil which has grout haze embedded into the wooden grain in...
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    How to check for damp?

    Hi there, I had an 'escape of water' between my sink and toilet unit in the bathroom and am dealing with the insurance company. I fixed the leak myself. The loss adjuster came out and saw a pool of water on the tiles that was visible when you lift the lid above the cistern and said that this...
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    How to un seal & re-seal a floor once laid

    Hi, please help... I have a had 30mtrs of beautiful grey polished porcelain tiles fitted in my open plan kitchen/conservatory & the tiler has done a fab job laying these tiles except he failed to seal them. Obviously within 2 weeks marks were showing all over them... it appeared like grease...
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    Advice needed. How to but up to skirting.

    Hi im in the final stages of preperation of tiling my hallway floor with absolute black granite tiles.But i have a dilema. How do i go about butting up to the existing skirting?. Do i remove the skirting and lift it above the new tiles? The walls are stud walls. Do i use a trim ? Or is there...
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    how to calculate area of circles etc

    As Im not working today I though I would make a quick how to for any newbies or anyone who may not know what formula to use for calcuting tile quanties for design works which include tiling circular areas. I know to some, this may seem basic but, I have heard this type of question many times so...
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    How to deal with black mould on walls.

    Hi all, I'm wanting to tile my bathroom walls, but there are large amounts of black mould growing over the paint. I know the paint will need to be removed before i tile, but how big a problem is the mould? I can wipe most surface mould off with tissue but is this mould in the plaster and...
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    How To Screed In Concrete Shower Base

    Hey guys picture this 1200 x 1200 concrete shower tray roughly 6-8 inches deep. Now it has to be prepared for tiling by being screeded from around 20mm to 1 - 2 mm how would you actually screed this in. please tell me how you would screed this.

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